- Jack Straw
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Previously he was Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 5 May 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007. He has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979.
- John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
- Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is a British politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. He was previously Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until it was abolished in 1986. After its abolition, he became Member of Parliament for Brent East, but was quoted as saying that being in the House of Commons was not enjoyable and made little impact there.
- Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 - 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was known as Robin Cook. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 17 March 2003 in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Simon Hughes
Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Southwark and Bermondsey. He has twice run unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party and was its unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of London in 2004. He is currently Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader to the House of Commons and has been President of the Liberal Democrats since September 1, 2004.
- Norman Baker
Norman John Baker (born 26 July 1957 in Aberdeen) is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewes. He is Currently the Liberal Democrat spokesman for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster. He was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment and Rural Affairs Secretary, but stood down as of 2 March 2006 immediately following the appointment of Sir Menzies Campbell as party leader.
- Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (18 October, 1919 – 28 September, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April, 1968 to 4 June, 1979, and from 3 March, 1980 to 30 June, 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, …
- Frank Field
Frank Ernest Field (born July 16, 1942) is a British politician and author. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead. Born in London with a violent father, he was educated at St Clement Danes School in Hammersmith before studying at the University of Hull where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree.
- John Baird
John Baird (born 26 May 1906 - 21 March 1965) was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP). He has first elected to the House of Commons in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when he defeated the long-serving Liberal MP, Geoffrey Mander. When his constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, Baird was returned to Parliament for the new Wolverhampton North East.
- Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne, known as Chris Huhne, (born 2 July 1954) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire. He finished second to Menzies Campbell in the 2006 election for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats and is the party's Shadow Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs in the House of Commons.
- Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949 in Wiltshire) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Islington North. He has been in the House of Commons since he won his seat at the 1983 general election. An old boy of Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire, he is a left-wing member of the Labour Party and is in the Socialist Campaign Group. He has a column in "The Morning Star". A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, …
- Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so (although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at 13).
- Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Dunwoody (born in Fulham, London, December 12, 1930, as Gwyneth Patricia Phillips), is the longest-serving woman Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Paul Flynn
Paul Philip Flynn (born February 9, 1935) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Newport West. Paul Flynn was born in Cardiff of Welsh/Irish parentage.
- Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 - 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.
- Nadine Dorries
Nadine Vanessa Dorries (born 21 May 1957) is a British politician. She is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire.
- Ian Gibson
Ian Gibson (born September 26, 1938) British politician, is the Labour Member of Parliament for Norwich North. Ian Gibson was born in Dumfries, Scotland and was educated locally at the Dumfries Academy, before attending the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in genetics and became a Doctor of Philosophy. He continued his studies in the United States of America at both Indiana University and the University of Washington.
- Alun Michael
Alun Michael has been named as the new minister responsible for ecommerce, replacing the previous e-minister, Mike O'Brien, who has moved to the role of Solicitor General. Michael was previously minister of state for rural affairs from 2001. He is best know for steering anti-fox hunting legislation through parliament in the face of stiff opposition from the pro-hunt lobby.
- Peter Milliken
Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken, MP, BA, MA, LL.B (born November 12, 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and has served as Speaker of the House since 2001. Milliken represents the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands as a member of the Liberal Party. As Speaker of the House of Commons, he is entitled to be styled The Honourable while in office.
- Jim Murphy
James Murphy (born 23 August, 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of East Renfrewshire and is the Minister of State for Europe, appointed by Gordon Brown on 28 June 2007.
- Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. Dalyell was born in England but raised in his mother's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., a scion of the family of Loch of Drylaw, was an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and through his mother he is a baronet, …
- Lynne Jones
Lynne Mary Jones (born 26 April 1951, Birmingham) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency. Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones studied biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, eventually earning her Ph.D. in 1979. She also has a post-graduate degree in Housing Studies from Birmingham Polytechnic (now the University of Central England). She has worked in both science and housing, …
- Peter Robinson
The Rt. Hon. Peter David Robinson MP MLA PC (born December 29, 1948) is a Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament for East Belfast and Deputy Leader of the same party. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency, a councillor on Castlereagh Borough Council and is married to Iris Robinson, also an MP. After being elected as a councillor in Castlereagh, in Belfast's south-eastern suburbs in 1977, …
- Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the "Baconian method" or simply, the scientific method.
- Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, PC, GCMG, KC, BCL, DCL, LLD, DLitt, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 - February 17, 1919) was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from July 11, 1896, to October 5, 1911. Canada's first francophone prime minister, Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen. He is well known for his policies of conciliation, nation building, and compromise between French and English Canada.
- Chris Grayling
Christopher Stephen Grayling (born April 1, 1962) British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell and the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Chris Grayling was born in London and grew up in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1984. He joined BBC News in 1985 as a trainee, …
- Roger Williams
Roger Williams (December 21, 1603-April 1, 1684) was an English theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the city of Providence, Rhode Island and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island. He is the originator of either the first or second Baptist church established in America.
- Tim Loughton
Timothy Paul Loughton (born 30 May 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election.
- Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott celebrates 20 years as the first elected Black female MP in Britain! Diane Abbott MP since June 11, 1987 Diane Abbott was the first Black female Member of Parliament ever elected in Britain on June 11 th , 1987. As MP Abbott celebrates her 20 years in Parliament she is still one of only two Black women in the British Parliament out of 646 members.
- Harry Cohen
Harry Michael Cohen (born 10 December 1949, in Hackney, London) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election as Member of Parliament for Leyton, transferring to the new Leyton and Wanstead constituency after boundary changes for the 1997 general election.
- David Davies
David Thomas Charles Davies (born July 27, 1970) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Monmouth.
- Alexa McDonough
Alexa Ann McDonough, MP (born August 11, 1944) is a Canadian politician who led the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia from 1980 to 1994, later to be elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1995. She was succeeded by Jack Layton as NDP leader after she stepped down in 2003. McDonough is currently a Member of Parliament for Halifax. McDonough was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Her father, Lloyd Shaw, was a wealthy businessman, …
- David Winnick
David Julian Winnick (born 26 June 1933) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North. Winnck was an advertising manager and a branch chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. He was a councillor from 1959 on Willesden Borough Council, then the London Borough of Brent. Winnick was first elected as an MP in 1966, for Croydon South (now the area roughly covered by Croydon Central constituency), …
- Peter Ainsworth
Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, the Member of Parliament for East Surrey and the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
- Nick Harvey
Nicholas Barton "Nick" Harvey (born August 3, 1961) is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Devon. Nick Harvey was born in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire and was educated at the Queen's College in Taunton and the Middlesex Poytechnic at Enfield where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in business studies in 1983, he also served as the president of the students' union in 1981.
- Andrew George
Andrew Henry George (born December 2, 1958) British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for St Ives, in Cornwall. Andrew George was born in Mullion near The Lizard, Cornwall, one of eight children born to a horticulturalist father and music teacher mother, and was educated locally at the Helston School, before attending the University of Sussex where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural and community studies in 1980.
- Derek Wyatt
Derek Murray Wyatt (born 4 December 1949) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent, first elected in 1997, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. Wyatt is chairman of the House of Commons all party internet group. He advocates forcing internet service providers (ISPs) through licensing to take steps to block spam before it arrives in inboxes.
- Nigel Griffiths
Nigel Griffiths MP (born May 20, 1955) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South.
- Kim Howells
Dr Kim Scott Howells (born November 27, 1946 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) is a Labour politician in Wales, and member of Parliament for Pontypridd.
- Barry Sheerman
Barry John Sheerman (born 17 August 1940, Middlesex) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Huddersfield. He was educated at the London School of Economics (BSc Economics 1965) and at London University (MSc 1967). He became a lecturer at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1966 and remained there until his election to parliament in 1979. Sheerman unsuccessfully contested Taunton in the February 1974 election, …